NATIONAL XR DOCUMENTS

EXTINCTION REBELLION SHEFFIELD

COVID-19 RESPONSE

After long, careful and difficult discussions at Delegate Circle (DC) on Saturday 14th March it was decided that:

We are cancelling the face to face Main Monday Meetings with immediate effect

From 23rd March we will be running virtual meetings on a Monday evening using Zoom (the details of which will be sent out via email).

We will carry out all DC business virtually using Zoom

The Coordinator of each Working group or sub-group and each affinity group will decide how to carry out their meetings.

We will stop having the drop in at the Blue Moon Cafe.

Our response to Covid-19 places us into more of a reflective phase rather than one of direct action. There is a silver lining in this: the opportunity to hold more open discussion meetings than usual, without the pressure of actions to plan.

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In these difficult times it is important that we are able to stay in touch. Let’s not let physical isolation become social isolation! We are all crew and we are all our community.

Contributions for food and donations at the Monday meeting have been the main source of XRS funds recently. We are keen to continue to support Union Street Café amongst other things if we can. The decision we’ve had to take means that these sources of income are gone for now. If you feel able we now have an easy on line way to contribute... please use it if you can!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

PAINT THE STREETS ARTWORK

Chalk artwork outside Sheffield Town Hall for Paint the Streets 2019

FUNERAL FOR THE FUTURE

Image from our powerful Funeral for the Future protest.

BLOCKNG SHEAF STREET

Image from when XR Sheffield blocked Sheaf Street to protest about the ring road expansion